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Example sentences for: mistake

How can you use “mistake” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He flew in first class, which he realized was a mistake because this seating assignment on that flight did not afford him a view of the cockpit.
Both Talavera ceramics from Puebla, and majolica ceramics are found in the region — but don’t mistake one for the other.
“The big mistake is suggesting that you can manage fish stocks,” says Niels Daan, a biologist with the Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research (IJmuiden, The Netherlands).
All of the above is true, but I still shouldn't have made the mistake.
Lewinsky calls the affair a "mistake" but frames the mistake in terms of technical error and emotional imbalance rather than moral failure.